The city’s parks permit ordinance does give the Parks Superintendent authority to impose conditions on a permit to “protect the health, safety and welfare of the public and/or the park; to avoid or limit unnecessary interference with other uses or users of the park.” But the only remedy the ordinance provides to protect parks is for the Superintendent to require the event organizer to acquire additional insurance, execute an indemnity agreement and/or provide a security deposit.
When the city proposed the events permitting ordinance in 1987, the ACLU of Washington took issue with the provisions allowing additional financial guarantees from applicants, cautioning that they could interfere with citizens’ constitutionally protected
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